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Thursday, April 15, 2010

A glimpse of the Romanian speculative fiction market

The Top for 2009 of Cititor SF (SF Reader) is a top made by fans, for the fans and with the fans. It is not an official award, although it is a bit similar with the David Gemmell Award in terms of titles proposed, short listing and voting for the winners, all the process involving the fans of speculative fiction, but also writers, editors publishers and translators. The top takes into consideration all the works of speculative fiction available in 2009 in Romania, be they written by local authors or translated for the first time in Romanian. This is in my opinion a praiseworthy initiative and I would certainly love to see this top turned into an annual award for the Romanian speculative fiction scene. Until then though, here is a glimpse of what the fans from my country enjoyed last year from the speculative fiction: